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Eriberto vs Erica

American parents have registered 232,637 Ericas since 1880, against 2,404 Eribertos. Erica is still ahead, with 156 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Eriberto against Erica, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Eriberto Erica

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 108 years in which either name was published, Erica for 105 years and Eriberto for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Eriberto Erica
Total US births 2,404232,637
Most in one year 7910,032
Babies in 2025 5156
Estimated living today 2,200224,000
Median age today 3339
Peak year 19971986
Best rank 1,386th boys31st girls
Rank in 2025 12,008th1,396th
First recorded 19211909
Girls / boys 0 / 2,404231,613 / 1,024

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ericas alive today are over 39; half the Eribertos are over 33. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Eriberto and Erica.